Around the garden

I have been busy this morning. I have some Basil growing hydroponically in a 'recycled' moisturiser tub. I cut a hole in the tub then insert a net pot containing the little Basil seedling which were germinated in coir pellets. The pellet was surrounded by clay balls in the net pot. Hydroponic nutrient is in the tub. They need regular checks, particularly when the plant is as big as it has got and the weather is warm. The jacket, although originally for insulation as I actually planned the idea for winter germination of seeds with warm water in the container, is very useful to block light hence algae growth.

That view is gorgeous, a_muppet: I'd never get tired of looking at that view.

Your planting is highly skilled, jen: how did you learn your craft? Actually, in my apartment I have four flourishing plants. One is around one and a half metres tall. My dad helped me re-pot all my plants last year and they've grown and grown.

I do love plants: I could happily be surrounded by them all day.

Our lawn has come back to life. After I trimmed it from 18 inches, it was rather yellow. It's back to green.

Gosh that's lovely! Mind if I use it as my PC wallpaper?

Thanks!

Yesterday I planted out two of the hydroponically grown pepper plants that I had in the house, then in the greenhouse for the last few days, in planters in the garden. They were in the old moisturiser tubs but an obvious fact I have realised is that when the amount of nutrient gets low the lack of weight at the base with a largeish plant makes them very unstable. Such an arrangement works very well for plants like my Basil which is low growing and harvested when it gets any size but risky with my usual lack of space.

It will be interesting to see how they fare after having such a good early life.

My original intention was only to use these small pots for growing on seedlings anyway but they have been very useful.

Are they sweet peppers or chilli peppers?

Sometimes, even that isn't enough, according to one guy who told me about his having to use the restroom after working with them.

Thanks

It's a while since we saw/heard how your new home is developing.

I wash my hands if I work in the garden at all. I don't like getting dirty. My dad used to take the P over it regularly.

A reminder of yesterday with that above.

I picked my first two peppers yesterday. They are sweet ones so no fear of burn. They were grown in the house - hydroponic tub on my workroom / study windowsill so are earlier than those outside and in the greenhouse.

We staked our redbud because it was growing more toward the house (toward the sun) than upright.. hopefully it won't lean so much as it gets older.

We also put down some mulch around the plants/trees that are in the sun the most.

We planted a new moonglow juniper.. I can't remember if this is our third or fourth try, but for some reason they keep having issues. This one didn't come from online; we hand-picked it from a local store instead, so hopefully it will do better than the others. We planted it even higher because we're not sure if the issue was root rot because we have a lot of clay that creates a bucket under plants sometimes if it rains too much. We thankfully have had dry periods, so I get to water it a smaller amount and then a little rain and there.